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Today was the first day of the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl, and the glossy program included a note from Hugh Hefner welcoming the audience, which made me chuckle. The night before I had...
View ArticleTrumpism in Hollywood, or, Defacing the Defacers
Months ago, novelist Bret Easton Ellis issued this remarkable tweet: “Just back from a dinner in West Hollywood: shocked the majority of the table was voting for Trump but they would never admit it...
View ArticleRonnie and Nancy, Redux
James Rosebush was chief of staff to Nancy Reagan. And senior advisor to President Reagan. He has now written a book: True Reagan: What Made Ronald Reagan Great and Why It Matters. And he and I discuss...
View ArticleLook at the Toff in the Tux! Ha Ha!
This morning, I saw a tweet that repulsed me. (No different from any other morning, sure.) It was retweeted by a member of the British parliament, who supports Brexit. There was a picture taken of...
View ArticleLiars and Bull**** Artists
People say Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are both liars, and that’s correct in the sense that they both make a general principle of avoiding the truth. To be precise, though, Hillary is a liar,...
View ArticleThe Orlando Horror Shows Once Again Why Jihadists Must Be Crushed
While any given terrorist attack is largely unpredictable, long and bitter experience with jihad does allow us to identify certain trends — certain laws of jihadist behavior. First, it is quite clear...
View ArticleOrlando Aftermath: To Fight the Enemy, Focus on the Enemy
Twitter is on fire right now with some of the worst vitriol I’ve ever read, and incredibly most of it is not directed at the terrorist who killed Americans or the terrorist army that claims credit....
View ArticleWill CAIR-LA Join Me in Condemning the Muslim Brotherhood and Muslim Scholars...
The greater Los Angeles area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has quickly arranged a news conference, apparently to be held in conjunction with another left-wing...
View Article"It did nothing because he was Muslim"
Per this report, a former cop who worked a security job with Mateen says he was a creep and believes his conduct got a pass for the usual reason:Gilroy, a former Fort Pierce police officer, said Mateen...
View ArticleObama's Remarks
John Podhoretz has written an appropriately tough critique:So determined is the president to avoid the subject of Islamist, ISIS-inspired or ISIS-directed terrorism that he concluded his remarks with...
View ArticleThe Ban v. The Resume
In terms of politics, the fall-out from the Orlando attack will pit The Ban (Trump’s Muslim ban and its associated rhetorical emphasis on toughness and the folly of PC) versus The Resume (Hillary’s...
View ArticleThis Is Not a Time for Dialogue
As we pore over the hour-by hour news in the wake of the Orlando shootings, political lines are already being drawn. We can guess which politicians (and which party) will prefer to emphasize gun...
View ArticleWhen the Unforeseen Doesn’t Seem So Unforeseen
From the first Morning Jolt of the week:When the Unforeseen Doesn’t Seem So UnforeseenNo one saw this coming, right?The gunman, who was killed in a shootout with police about 5 a.m., was identified by...
View ArticleEU Official: Brexit Could Mean End of Western Civilization
Supporters of Britain leaving the European Union (dubbed Brexit) have called out those wishing to remain in the EU for running a scare campaign they dub Project Fear. Britons have been warned that...
View ArticleClinton on Naming the Enemy
Hillary Clinton, Nov. 19: “The obsession in some quarters with a clash of civilization, or repeating the specific words ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ isn’t just a distraction, it gives these criminals,...
View ArticleRemember Ashcroft and the Library Records?
Not long ago, a great many Democrats were worried to death that the PATRIOT Act would empower John Ashcroft to go sniffing through their library records, and this was to be understood as the End of All...
View ArticleObama and Hillary Will Want to Talk About Everything But the FBI Interviews
In the discussions of the Orlando attack, watch for the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton campaign to do everything possible to shift focus away those three FBI interviews of the shooter....
View ArticleWATCH: 'The Vast Majority of Muslims Are Incredibly Patriotic, Yet There Is a...
NRO contributor Tom Rogan appeared yesterday on Fox News to deliver analysis on the devastating terrorist attack in Orlando. In the clip below, Rogan explains that he does not see the necessary urgency...
View ArticleWhat Horror
Per the New York Times:One out of every three people in the club was either wounded or killed. Orlando Shooting Worst in U.S. History
View ArticleAfter Orlando Shooting, Rubio Reconsidering 'How I Can Best Serve'
Marco Rubio said he is giving new consideration to the possibility of running for reelection to the Senate in the wake of the ISIS-linked massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando that left 49 people dead...
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